What is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Yet, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long tale succinct, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular hosting provider into a genuine cloud hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. Very few hosting firms can truly achieve it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving countless domain names, websites, e-mail accounts, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than offering only remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted just to the e-mail associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one or probably an entire group of electronic mail servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting packages provider will support multiple data center locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting accounts provider:

dns1.www.avarhost.com

dns2.www.avarhost.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you discern a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS plainly illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted only to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a few new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.